Notices by Fight for the Future (fight@mastodon.fightforthefuture.org)

HR 9495 is back in action for markup TODAY! Our call tool is still available- tell your reps to VOTE NO on this bill!

A $621 million suit for ~$41,000 in "damages" for archiving thousands of musical recordings that would otherwise be lost to history.

This is nothing short of an effort to end the @internetarchive from major music labels and we should all be furious.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/

Publishing execs who think data on readers is their new product?

Get ready, because it’s about to get awkward.

Tomorrow, the @InternetArchive is appealing in court for the right to own and preserve digital books, including half a million books that this suit forced them to remove from their library.

But it’s not book banners they’re up against, it’s Big Publishing. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/

If Congress is going to give the FAA $105 billion, they need to bake in a ban on dangerous and discriminatory #FacialRecognition tech that the TSA is saying they're bringing to 400+ airports nationwide.

Sign the petition: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-spread-of-facial-recognition-at-airports/

Facial recognition is snake oil from big tech companies that makes us less safe, not more safe. It isn't any faster than scanning your ticket, and the data collected could be hacked and stolen, sold to third party face AI scammers.

Worse, facial recognition disproportionately misidentifies Black and brown people, doubling down on the racial profiling and discrimination US airports are known for around the world.

Why are we giving our tax dollars to facial recognition companies w/racist tech?!

It's far past time for Congress to take action and ban facial recognition completely, but the FAA bill presents an opportunity to go after one of the ways in which this creepy surveillance tech is being nonconsensually forced into our lives.

Tell Congress to ban facial recognition from airports now and just scan people's tickets like we all want! Propping up facial recognition's use can only hurt our digital and human rights.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-spread-of-facial-recognition-at-airports/

Devastating coverage of the harms #DataBrokers cause to #abortion workers, patients, and activists—including stories from two of our staff at ❤️Fight.

We need the #DELETEAct yesterday so we can opt out of this abuse-to-profit machine. https://19thnews.org/2024/04/doxxing-personal-data-reproductive-health-care-workers/